Hinge for awning-blinds



(No Model.)

H. S. TUCKER. HINGE FOR AWNING BLINDS.

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HENRY s. TUCKER, or FAULKNER, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TO ALEXAN- nun novna, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HINGE FOR AWNlNG-BUNDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 305,54:9, dated Eeptember 23, 188%.

Application filed January 28, 1884. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, HENRY S. TUCKER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Faulk= Figure 1' represents a side elevation of the invention, showing the blinds as closed. Fig. 2 represents an interior view of the blinds when closed. Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section of the blind-awning when in use.

Fig. 4 represents an enlarged vertical section on the line A B. (Shown in Fig. 2.) Fig. 5 represents a perspective detail view of the upper hinge for the improved blind-awning. Fig. 6 represents a perspective detail view of the lower hinge for the improved blindawning. Fig. 7 represents a perspective view of the locking-pin and its staples for securing the lower hinge to the blinds when the latter are not in use as a blind-awning. Fig. 8 repre 3o sents the locking-bolt for fastening the blinds together when in use as a blind-awning, and Fig. 9 represents one of the locking-brackets for the said locking-bolt.

Similar letters refer to similanparts wherever they occur on the different parts. of the drawings.

a or represent a pair of ordinary blinds, to the upper end of each of which is secured a hinge. (Shownin detailin Fig. 5.) Said hinge consists b, that is secured by means of suitable screws to the inside of the blind. The plate I) is hinged in its upper end to the angular bracket or piece I), the outer end, b, of which is hinged to, supported, and made to 5 swing on the hinge-pin c of the usual hingebracket, 0, as shown in detail in Fig. 5. The

I hinge-bracket c is driveninto or otherwise 'secured to the outside of the wall or windowframe, as usual. To the inside of the lower part of each blind a is secured the detachable angle-piece d, hinged at d in its outer end to the hinge-pin e of the usual hinge-bracket, 6. (Shown in detail in Fig. 6.) The hinge-bracket e is of the usual kind, of the same pattern as the upper bracket, 0, and is driven into and secured to the outside of the wall or window-frame, as usual. The angle piece (I is provided with a pair of slot holes or perforations, d (2, adapted to receive the staples (1 (1 secured to the inside of the lower part of 6 each blind, and when the blinds are to be used as ordinary blinds I then secure each anglepieee d to its respective blind by means of a pin or bolt, (1*,- passing through the projecting loops of staples d d", after thelatter have been inserted through the corresponding holes d d in the angle-piece d, as shown in Fig. 2.

When the blinds are to be used as a blind awning, I lock them together by means of the locking-bar f, hinged to one of the blinds a by means of a screw or bolt, f, passing through a slotted perforation, f, in said locking-bar, as shown in Figs. 2 and 8. When in a locked position, the ends of said bar f are made to rest in the locking bracketsf f secured, respectively, in reversed positions to the insides of the blinds-a a, as shown. Near one end of said locking-bar f is a bayonetslpt, f, as shown in Figs. 2 and 8, adapted to fit and lock on a pinor screw, f secured to the same blind on which the bar f is hinged, so as to suspend the said bar in a vertical position when not required for use, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. g g are ordinary stays hinged to the respective blinds a a, and adapted to hook into eyebolts g, secured to the windowframe i, when the blind-awning, is in use, as shown in Fig. 3. Near the meeting edges of the upper part of the blinds a a are attached to the latter the respective hooked plates [L 71, one for each blind, adapted to hook onto a suitable rod or staple, h, secured. to the win dow-frame, such hook and staple serving as an inner bearing for the blind-awning when in use, and by its means either of the blinds a may be used and held in position as a blindawning independent of the other blind, if so desired.

The operation of my invention is as follows: In case I desire to use the .blinds as such I se- 100 I cure the lower angle-pieces, d d, to the inside in which the of the respective blinds a a by means of the locking pins or bolts d (1*, as shown in Figs. 2 and 7, and by placing the locking-bar f in its unlocked position (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2) either of the said blinds a a may be used and operated'in the same anner as ordinary blinds.

When it is desired to use my invention as a blind-awning, I place the locking-barf in its horizontal locking position.. (Shown in full lines in Fig. 2.) I then detach the angle-pieces d cl from the lower ends of the blinds a a by withdrawing the pins or bolts (2* d from the staples d ti, and swing the now-connected blinds outward on the hinge-pins that connect the plates 1) b to the respective hinge-pieces or brackets b b to the position shown in Fig. 3, blind-awning is held by means of the stay hooks or rods 9 g, as shown in said Fig. 3. i

'What I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim isported on stationary hinge-pin e, and having slotted openings (2 01, adapted to receive staples d 02 secured to inside of blind to and to be locked thereto by means of pins (1 as set forth.

In testimony nature in presence of two Witnesses.

HENRY s. TUCKER.

Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDREN, HENRY OHADBOURN.

whereof I have affixed my sig- 4 

